US Soldier Charged with Leaking Video of Reuters' Photographer Being Killed

US Army Private Bradley Manning suspected of leaking video footage of a U.S. Apache helicopter strike in Baghdad that killed two employees of the Reuters news agency has been charged, the military said on Monday.

The military accuses Manning, 22, of transmitting a video of a July 2007 military operation filmed in Baghdad “to a person not entitled to receive it” in violation of federal law. The video was widely viewed on the Internet after being posted in April on Wikileaks, a whistleblower web site that lets users anonymously upload classified information.